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French lower house clears counterfeiting bill
The French lower house of parliament approved on Nov. 25 a bill proposing to harshen legislation against counterfeiting. The bill was presented by two members of the house of deputies, Pierre-Yves Bournazel and Christophe Blanchet, who are part of the government coalition. However, the outcome of the bill remains uncertain ...
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Germany does not rule out a new lockdown
The German government cannot rule out any measure, including a lockdown, to stem the diffusion of the Covid-19 pandemic as the number of cases increase nationwide, the health minister, Jens Spahn, told the radio broadcaster Dlf. “In some states the situation is really dramatic,” he said. “We cannot rule out ...
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Austria reintroduces a general lockdown from Nov. 22
The Austrian government announced a general lockdown starting Nov. 22 and lasting for three weeks, amid a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the country and increasing pressure on intensive care units. It is the first European Union country to reimpose a lockdown. “Despite months of persuasion, we haven’t succeeded in ...
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ArticleEU proposes new rules to fight deforestation, promote circular economy
The European Commission has adopted three new initiatives proposing rules to curb deforestation, to facilitate intra-EU waste shipments to promote circular economy and tackle the export of waste to third countries. From 1990 to 2020 the world has lost 420 million hectares of forest, an area larger than the European ...
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Mime et moi is up for sale
In order to relaunch the Munich-based brand Mime et moi, the administrator Axel Bierbach from the law firm Müller-Heydenreich Bierbach & Kollegen (Munich) has launched a procedure to find an investor who can inject fresh capital into the start-up in order to guarantee the continuation of its activities and save ...
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U.K. anti-trust authority again blocks the JD Sports-Footasylum merger
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued a new verdict on Nov. 4 confirming its conclusion that JD Sports Fashion must divest Footasylum, the chain of sports fashion stores that it bought in May 2019, as it has resulted, or may be expected to result, in “a substantial lessening ...
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Boohoo agrees preliminary terms of U.S. class action lawsuit
The British fast-fashion retailer Boohoo has agreed to terms of a preliminary settlement with parties that brought a U.S. class action claim alleging its promotions in California misled shoppers. The company said the preliminary settlement will be covered in full by its existing claims provisions, which stood at £19.1 million ...
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U.K. retailers call for human rights law to protect supply factory workers
More than 35 retailers, manufacturers and investors including Primark and Asos have demanded the British government make human rights and environmental checks on their global supply chains mandatory by law. In a letter, the group said the Covid-19 crisis highlighted the “fragility of global supply chains” and the vulnerabilities faced ...
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ArticleEurope, U.S. reach a deal defusing their trade dispute
The U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Austria and the U.S. have reached an agreement under which the European countries will drop their national digital services taxes as they prepare to implement a new global corporate tax defined through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A two-year transition period for ...
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ArticleSpanish shoemakers expect to emerge from Covid-19 crisis by 2022
The Spanish footwear industry suffered severely from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 but has since enjoyed a 35 percent rebound in production during the first half of 2021. In an interview with Shoe Intelligence, Imanol Martínez, the marketing & international business development director of the Spanish footwear ...
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Adidas loses appeal about H&M’s two stripes
Ending a trademark dispute that began in 1997, the Dutch Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Adidas against a lower court’s ruling that a two-stripe logo used by Hennes & Mauritz did not infringe on its iconic Three Stripes. A key factor in H&M’s success was a market research ...
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ArticleILO adopts code of practice for shoe and apparel manufacturing
To provide a practical basis for employers, workers and governments to work together to advance an occupational safety and health (OSH) prevention culture in the textile, clothing, leather and footwear manufacturing sector, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has worked out its first code of practice on safety and health for ...
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Court sets an Oct. 28 deadline to bid for Sequential’s brands
The auction being supervised by U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for the bankrupt Sequential Brands Group is set to start next month. Interested parties have been given a deadline of Oct. 28 to submit bids for any of its assets to be added to those already filed ...
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New Balance faces new complaint over its made in USA label
A consumer advocacy organization, truthinadvertising.org, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking it to investigate the validity of New Balance’s “made in USA” label, which it uses in at least a dozen models of footwear. According to the complaint, NB claims “a domestic value of ...
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Covid-vaccinated Europeans to enter France freely from June 9
Europeans vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to enter France without a PCR test from June 9, said the Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. From June 9 “vaccinated Europeans can come to France without a PCR test,” he said in an interview with the television CNEWS.
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Japan prolongs state of emergency to June 20
The Japanese government has extended a state of emergency in Tokyo and other areas of the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic to June 20, just over a month before the planned start of the Toyko Olympics on July 23. The restrictive measures currently in place, which are less rigid ...
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ArticleBlockchain technology: hype or helpful?
Blockchain technology (BT) is generally associated with cryptocurrencies, but it is rapidly being adopted in other sectors to streamline bureaucracy and foster transparency. In February 2019, the Italian industry ministry announced plans to set up, jointly with the computer giant IBM, a national scheme using BT to guarantee the traceability ...
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Russia postpones to June 15 deadline to sell unlabeled shoes
The Russian government has once again pushed back the deadline for retailers to sell stocks of unlabeled footwear. The new date is June 15. Labeling shoes with special electronic tags became mandatory in Russia on June 1, 2020. As of April this year, 82,000 companies have registered with the new ...
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ArticleWorld Footwear helps shoemakers to deal with Brexit
The Portuguese shoe industry association, Apiccaps, has posted a useful guide on the website of World Footwear with practical checklists for shoe exporters and importers on how to deal with the new trade agreement between the U.K. and the European Union. It also organized a few days ago an interesting ...
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European Parliament to vote on Brexit deal April 27
On April 27, the European Parliament will vote on the post-Brexit trade deal agreed between the EU and the U.K., its spokesman, Jaume Duch, said on Twitter. EU lawmakers are expected to clear the deal, which faces an end-April deadline for approval and was backed last week by parliamentary committees. ...
